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Entrance to cave at Hanyan

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Drifting Boat
        Hanshan (Tang)

Once at Cold Mountain
        troubles cease,
No more tangled
        hung-up mind.
I idly scribble poems on the rock cliff,
Taking whatever comes
        like a drifting boat.
 
Bùjì Zhōu
Hánshān (Táng)

Yī zhù Hánshān wànshìxiū,
Gèng wú zániàn guàxīn tōu.
Xián yū shíbìtōu shījù,
Rèn lián hái tóng bù jì zhōu.
 
Translator: Gary Snyder 史耐德

Notes:
Gary Snyder, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, Shoemaker & Hoard 2004

 
 
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